SUCCESSFUL MOVING OF A LARGE HOTEL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 906, 19 January 1882, Page 2

SUCCESSFUL MOVING OF A LARGE HOTEL.

A large hotel in Boston, the Pelham, on Tremout, and BolstOn street*, was lately moved a distance ot 13 feet 10, inches, with a view to widening, Tremout street. The building is of freestone and> brick, with frontages of 96 and 59 feet, a basement and seven storeys, the totalheight above the tramways used being 96 feet. The weight was 5000 tons- The furniture was not disturbed during removal, nor wore the occupants of the, stores on the first floor and in some of the, rooms, the various pipe connexions being, kept up with flexible tubes. Substantial stone and brick foundations were made for iron rails and rollers, and the building was forced to its new position by means of 56 screws operated by hand against timbers arranged to uniformly distribute the pressure against the building (which was firmly braced in the lower part). Two months and 20 days were occupied in preparation The moving itself begun on August. 21, and finished, op, August, 25, but the actual time of- moving was only. 13 hours and 40 minutes. The greatest, speed was two inches in four minutes. The hotel moved, about one-eighth of an inch at each quarter turn of the screws. The whole cost was about £30,000. This is said to be the largest building that has ever been moved, though larger have been raised (which is a much simpler and less risky operation.) The complete success of the work appears in the fact that previous cracks in the building were not. changed, pieces of paper that bad been [ pasted over these not being affected.